Laurianne Bixhain – Kulturhuef

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Laurianne Bixhain was born in Wiltz in 1987. She graduated with a BA and an MFA from the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and completed a masterclass in photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.

Her most recent exhibitions include "Freigeister. Fragments of an art scene in Luxembourg and beyond" at Mudam, Luxembourg; Tawil at Recyclart, Brussels and Cercle 5 at Cercle Cité, Luxembourg. Her work has been presented at festivals such as Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles and the European Month of Photography, Berlin. In 2018 she was awarded the Luxembourg Encouragement for Artists Prize (LEAP) and in 2016 she was nominated for the ING Unseen Talent Award, Amsterdam. Her book On the Other End was published by VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, and she has participated in residencies in Brussels (ISELP), Paris (Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre), Montreal (Darling Foundry), Manchester (Islington Mill) and Istanbul (Torna).

She lives and works in Luxembourg.

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Concept | Læ soleil et l'acier (translation: Sun and steel)

Young Luxembourg artist Laurianne Bixhain demonstrated her playful approach to materials in her artist's residence at the Kulturhuef museum.

The name of the artist's residence, læ soleil et l'acier (sun and steel), in itself illustrates the interaction between the materiality of steel - in the museum, the iron of printing instruments such as plates, letters and presses - and the immateriality of the sun, which crosses our environment in a constant immaterial play. Here, Laurianne Bixhain wanted to draw attention to the importance of text and language and their influence on our world.
In several reading circles with artist friends, the artist recorded, discussed, transformed, fragmented and repositioned fragments of text. Through this fascinating reshaping of meaning through the deliberate entanglement of text fragments, the artist wanted to echo the very process of creation.

The artist - in collaboration with graphic designer Roxanne Maillet - combines this fluidity of meaning with the inflexibility and finality of iron by materialising the fragments of text through the process of printing on the historic machines of the Kulturhuef museum. They are printed in several formats and on different materials. These different stages of the work have been presented in successive temporary exhibitions until June 2023.

The exhibition and the reading groups were open to the public, and spectators were able to take part and read aloud, with prior registration.

Reading Room

As part of the artist residence, Laurainne Bixhain held a public reading on 5 November 2022 that anyone could attend.

The separation of the world of ideas from the world of matter, which has been handed down throughout the history of philosophy and art, implies a hierarchy that presupposes the inferiority of matter, which is considered passive. This division is all the more brutal when it comes to hierarchising and contrasting nature and culture, feminine and masculine, practice and theory, touching and seeing, artefact and living being, and so on.

The artist then proposed a work of collective composition, affirming the multivocity of the texts and of the creation. The experience of the text, carried by the force of the voice through reading aloud, would then allow Roxanne Maillet to shape the texts by introducing a meaning that translated reading, speech and gesture.
Laurianne Bixhain then proposed reproducing the texts on the Museum's presses, giving the same importance to the materials used, the meaning they generated and what they signified.

Laurianne Bixhain meets Gutenberg

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Concept | Læ soleil et l'acier (translation: Sun and steel)

Reading Room

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